Marvel One-Shots

Hopefully we get the one shot where Pym gets de-aged and joins the Avengers.:woot:

Hey,after the Mandarin thing,I have hope!:awesome:
 
Hopefully we get the one shot where Pym gets de-aged and joins the Avengers.:woot:

Hey,after the Mandarin thing,I have hope!:awesome:

Why would you hope for such a silly idea that would only make certain prior comics fans happy and likely alienate audiences that aren't so familiar with the source material?
 
Why would you hope for such a silly idea that would only make certain prior comics fans happy and likely alienate audiences that aren't so familiar with the source material?

After the Mandarin short,you really need to ask?That's what they just did!
 
To me,having a comic-accurate (or near accurate-let's not quibble) Pym/Ant Man/Giant Man/Yellowjacket that is a contemporary of Stark/Rodgers/Banner,joins the Avengers and marries the Wasp in the MCU,could only be a good thing.
 
I don't really think the problems with Thor 2 or Agents of SHIELD have anything to do with pandering. Agents of SHIELD's biggest problem, in my opinion anyway, is that it lacks a strong thematic core. The show was sold to us as a story of totally ordinary people having to live in a world where they are surrounded by beings and things that are bigger and better than we can ever hope to be, and they're just surviving and trying to hold the world together in the face of these titanic, inexorable, larger than life forces that don't give a damn wether they live or die. While that theme has definitely been addressed in the show, it doesn't feel like it's the driving force of the narrative. It feels to me that the writers have had a hard time articulating that theme consistently, and if it got a bigger focus than it's getting now the show would feel a lot more cohesive and compelling.

As for Thor 2, it's biggest problem was a mind numbingly dull villain who was difficult to give a damn about. Honestly, Loki's presence in the film was what kept me from hating it, the stuff with him and Thor was all great.

I may be wrong, but I attribute those things to pandering. The theme of AoS is so a spinoff from Coulson being the lead which leads directly to inconsistency, especially on a TV budget.

And I can't think of any explanation for an anemic villain than the other villain of the movie getting an inordinate amount of attention. If you put all the emotional focus of your movie on the secondary villain, of course the primary villain will suck. But who cares? It's Loki. Fangirls go wild, and I'm like 'Why bother making a Thor movie when your main focus is Loki?'
 
Hopefully we get the one shot where Pym gets de-aged and joins the Avengers.:woot:

Hey,after the Mandarin thing,I have hope!:awesome:

I would rather see an actor cast as Young Pym than De-Age Michael Douglas.
 
I may be wrong, but I attribute those things to pandering. The theme of AoS is so a spinoff from Coulson being the lead which leads directly to inconsistency, especially on a TV budget.

I don't see how that leads to inconsistency, or what a TV budget has to do with that.

And I can't think of any explanation for an anemic villain than the other villain of the movie getting an inordinate amount of attention. If you put all the emotional focus of your movie on the secondary villain, of course the primary villain will suck. But who cares? It's Loki. Fangirls go wild, and I'm like 'Why bother making a Thor movie when your main focus is Loki?'

But the stuff we did get with Maliketh just wasn't good. I really don't think Loki is to blame for Maliketh's poor showing. Heck, I think having Loki in the capacity they did was just a straight up good idea for a sequel anyway. Loki was the main bad guy of two movies. Now he and Thor are in a buddy cop movie. That's kind of brilliant. No, I really don't think Loki was the problem here. They still had plenty of room to make Maliketh interesting and to give him something interesting to do, they just didn't use it.
 
I always thought it would be interesting to have Natalie Portman be the MCU's Enchantress. If they found a way to do that in a one-shot, I'd be wow-ed. :wow:
 
I don't see how that leads to inconsistency, or what a TV budget has to do with that.

Well, Coulson's life story is being the little guy in a superhero world, so a show with him as the lead is naturally an extension of that. Issue is, in a TV show, you can't really afford a bunch of Thors running around. On top of this, as the lead, he has to be the big guy, thematically, as well as being part of a huge organization which prevents him from being the little guy virtually all of the world's population. These themes are largely incompatible, as far as I can tell.

But the stuff we did get with Maliketh just wasn't good. I really don't think Loki is to blame for Maliketh's poor showing. Heck, I think having Loki in the capacity they did was just a straight up good idea for a sequel anyway. Loki was the main bad guy of two movies. Now he and Thor are in a buddy cop movie. That's kind of brilliant. No, I really don't think Loki was the problem here. They still had plenty of room to make Maliketh interesting and to give him something interesting to do, they just didn't use it.

The buddy cop part was brilliant, the Loki being Thor's principal focus for act II... that was for the fans. Time is meaningless if you don't care about the character, if the hero has little reason to care about them either. Also, having enough screen time is not the same as having enough pre-production time to make that screen time interesting. How much time do you think the writers spent making sure Malkeith's scenes were awesome. How could they possibly go forward thinking they had a decent film that people would like when their main villain was exposition 9000 and the only people asking any questions about him were the costume department?
 
I really enjoyed that one-shot. Sets up some interesting things for the future.

Is Justin Hammer gay?
 
No, he just got Ozzed. Although, it would explain why he was such an awkward doofus around women in IM2. I'd like to see a Black Widow/Hawkeye one-shot next, guest-starring Melinda May from AOS.
 
I really enjoyed that one-shot. Sets up some interesting things for the future.

Is Justin Hammer gay?

Only institutionally.
It's a known thing, many men make due with what is available to them when facing long stretches in prison.
It was even implied with the wink-wink that Herman was more than just a butler...
Thing is I just don't see how
Hammer
wouldn't be the one getting passed around, using Oz as reference you'd think he'd be most likely to get the Tobias welcome.

Anyways I felt it was an amazing One-Shot that in no way was backpedaling or an example of Marvel Studios not sticking to their guns, if you take a close look at the 10 Rings in IM1 then it makes no sense that Killian was in on it since then, I felt it was jarring actually and can give Marvel nothing but praise for fixing continuity.

As for the next One-Shot I would have liked it to focus on the underdeveloped Dark Elves, but since none of importance is left why bother.

The Warriors Three on an adventure would be amazing. Or something that could further bridge the gap between TDW and GotG.
 
They should get Tarantino just to piss of Spike Lee

Nah, then the lead of the show would be Griffith (spouting a special word that rhymes with trigger nonstop) with Cage in the background.
 
Thoughts or idea on a one-shot for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. when it comes out on blu-ray....

What I'd love is a Deathlok one-shot, but I'm not sure if it could happen. If they wanted to be really creative, they'd have a Matt Murdock one-shot, kinda like a pre-daredevil tease, showing him before he becomes DD. Then, they could show it at Comic Con this summer.

Any other ideas?
 
I was thinking one related to AOS would be good as well.

Based on the fact that Jeremy Renner wasn't happy with his role in the first film, I was thinking about the idea of him being recast and the character joining AOS. This would give the show a heavy-hitter (moreso than they have now) and someone that would legitimately be able to take down a super-powered foe.

As for the One Shot, have him meeting with Fitz and Simmons on some new tech for his arrows, maybe training with Ward for a mission in which they have to take down Blizzard or Graviton, recapture an escaped Abomination, something. Then the following season would have him joining Coulson's team, fighting bad guys, etc etc.
 
I would rather see an actor cast as Young Pym than De-Age Michael Douglas.

It will probably be a younger actor and abut of de-aged Douglas depending on how far the flashbacks go.
 
It will probably be a younger actor and abut of de-aged Douglas depending on how far the flashbacks go.

Well, Douglas was de-aged to play Liberace, which I hope is as far as the film will go.
 
I was thinking one related to AOS would be good as well.

Based on the fact that Jeremy Renner wasn't happy with his role in the first film, I was thinking about the idea of him being recast and the character joining AOS. This would give the show a heavy-hitter (moreso than they have now) and someone that would legitimately be able to take down a super-powered foe.

As for the One Shot, have him meeting with Fitz and Simmons on some new tech for his arrows, maybe training with Ward for a mission in which they have to take down Blizzard or Graviton, recapture an escaped Abomination, something. Then the following season would have him joining Coulson's team, fighting bad guys, etc etc.
Renner's not getting recast. He's already said that he's happy to come back and Whedon has already said that Hawkeye will have a bigger role in AOU.
 
On the whole Loki taking over the Thor franchise; I really hope they don't pull that with Surtur. It would be a massive dissapointment if the biggest Thor villain was reduced to a plot device. I do believe there is a way they can have both play significant roles without undermining one or the other. I wish each of the Thor movies had laid some kind of groundwork for a final confrontation with the Fire demons, similar to what they did with the IM films. dropping hints at the Mandarin in each film give audiences something to look forward to for the big finale.
 

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